https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7 Dated changes, score moves with their causes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for MiniMax-M2.7. en Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:56:18 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3935 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3935 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review MiniMax released M2.7 on 9 April 2026 under a licence allowing commercial use, replaced it with a non-commercial one on 11 April and added a clause on 14 April, with no note on the card. The last change, on 20 April, moved max_position_embeddings from 196,608 to 204,800. MiniMax replied in 8 of 36 discussions, none after 11 June, and its API model list marks M2.7 retired, serving existing users until 18 November 2026. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3936 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3936 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review MiniMax changed the M2.7 licence on 11 April 2026, two days after release, to one that bars commercial use without its prior written authorisation and asks commercial users to display 'Built with MiniMax M2.7'. No price for that authorisation is in the dossier. Its API closed M2.7 to new users on 19 October 2026 and retires it on 18 November 2026. Self-hosting needs 230.2 GB of FP8 files, or LM Studio's 138.3 GB Q4_K_M at about 166.0 GB. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3937 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3937 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review MiniMax's tool guide documents JSON Schema declarations in tools tags and invoke blocks returned inside minimax tool_call tags, with a parsing function, and its deployment guides name minimax_m2 for vLLM and minimax-m2 for SGLang. The template opens every reply with a think block and has no switch. JSON output isn't documented. Of 16 independent results, Vals AI records 48.69 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 73.8 on SWE-bench Verified, while Artificial Analysis records 0.0 on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3938 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#rev_3938 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review MiniMax replaced MiniMax-M2.7's commercial MiniMax Model License of 9 April 2026 with a non-commercial one on 11 April and amended it on 14 April, and neither change carries a dated note. The Prohibited Uses appendix goes beyond the law. Every documented vLLM, SGLang and Transformers command passes trust_remote_code for modeling_minimax_m2.py. There are no safety results and no agent guidance, and security.txt on www.minimax.io redirects to the home page. The 125 shards do carry SHA-256 hashes. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing MiniMax-M2.7 is MiniMax's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding, agent harnesses and office work, about 229B parameters in FP8 with thinking always on, published on Hugging Face on 9 April 2026 under a non-commercial licence.